Wednesday, February 17, 2010

We’re grabbing this chance while we have a quiet 10 minutes to giveyou a bit of advance notice of the biggest, most important, andhopefully the funniest, event in the libel campaign so far this year.

Later on today we are going to publicly announce ‘The Big LibelGig’ when some of the biggest names in UK comedy, science and humanrights will be sharing a stage to tell us that England’s libel lawsare unjust, against the public interest and need to be reformed.‘The Big Libel Gig’ is at the Palace Theatre in London’s WestEnd at 7.30 pm on Sunday 14th March 2010.

There will be a very eclectic line-up of famous names including DaraÓ Briain, Robin Ince, Tim Minchin, Shappi Khorsandi, MarcusBrigstocke, Ed Byrne, Professor Brian Cox and Professor RichardWiseman.

The Big Libel Gig will also include a chance to hear from Drs BenGoldacre, Simon Singh and Peter Wilmshurst, who have all felt the fullforce of England’s libel laws. They’ll talk frankly about how thelibel laws have affected them personally.

This is a one-off benefit event to raise money for the libel reformcampaign being run by the Coalition for Libel Reform, established bythe charities Index on Censorship, English PEN and Sense AboutScience. If you can’t make the gig, other ways to support thecampaign include donating through the dedicated JustGiving pagehttp://libelreform.indiemedium.com/lt.php?id=ZkQHUQgKDlAYBQZJBAAKVVw%3D or email donate@libelreform.org for more information.

Tickets are now on sale fromwww.seetickets.com/see/event.asp?e|artist=the+big+libel+gig&filler1=see&filler2=BLG, at the theatre’s Box Office in person and by telephone on 08444124657. This has not yet been announced publicly, so beat the rush,buy the best seats in the house and support libel reform.

We look forward to seeing you at the campaign’s most important,funny, thought-provoking and staggering event of the year so far.